As a family business we're a friendly, helpful, bunch at Hobby Art. All our stamps are designed by us and manufactured in Britain. Look at the gallery on my blog - jennymayes.com - for lots of card ideas using the Hobby Art range. We're pleased to sponsor the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge and look forward to seeing the entries. Good luck everyone. Jenny and all. X

I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with like minded people. I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself. This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

Some inspiration from our DTLeslieI created a fun birthday card using hexagon dies with the Big Shot and a high heel shoe cut file with the Silhouette. I added some polka dot ribbon, a filigree metal corner, gemstones and pearls.Viv

Predominantly white wedding card, using punches and dies- and a touch of ink!Julie

My card was mostly cut using my Cameo, in shades of cream & Green.JackieMy boxed acetate dome card was made for a 60th Birthday and I used one of my Tattered Lace dies to cut the aperture and the frames. I also used some flowers from my stash, and the last of my lovely burgundy ribbon.Pamellia

I reached deep into my stash and pulled out some Spellbinders dies and LaLa Land dies to put together this shiny Christmas card. Lots of gold and lots of glitter! Glenda

Mostly everything I used is from Stampin Up: Designer paper, framelit die, sentiment (embossed in gold), tag punch, flower stamp and matching punch and leaf die. Gold twine and stickles on the flowers are from my stash.

Hi I am Julie and am delighted to join CCM DT, I have been crafting for many years knitting from an early age taught by my Mum, I have only been card making for 6 years due to illness, it helped me so much and to be honest I don't even know where the idea came from in the first place, but I loved it and then a friend mentioned Create and Craft well that did it for me it opened a whole new perspective of card making I was amazed and learnt so much from it too, I could not be without it now, I have to make something everyday or I get withdrawal symptons, LOL.

and Julie's first project for us

I have used Create A Card Die Enchanted and Tattered Lace word die

Any entry that does not meet the challenge requirement or that does not follow our simple rules will not be published. If you are having issues with any other linking matter please mail me at the address in the side bar

I'm not big on card sentiments - I prefer to let the image 'do the talking'! So for this one, I took a simple Photoshop Elements originated sentiment and added various die cuts and flowers, (almost) all courtesy of Sizzix.

I am a retired career woman and I have loved crafting of all sorts since I can remember. This current phase of card making has me totally addicted. I love to make anything out of paper, I just find it fascinating. I am starting (much to my delight and horror] to get interested in scrap-booking and the creations of albums :0). I am married to a most wonderful man and have one son and 4 step children, all adults at this point with lives and families of their own leaving me time to pursue my own interests. I am so pleased to have the opportunity to join Lin's team at Crafty Cardmakers and I look forward to seeing everyone's work and sharing my own with you !

My sentiment is a TLC Creations digital image, spiders are die cut and the papers are from my Halloween paper stash. Distressed the edges with a Tim Holtz distressing tool.

Any entry that does not meet the challenge requirement or that does not follow our simple rules will be deleted. If you are having issues with any other linking matter please mail me at the address in the side bar

Before we get down to announcing the winner and top 5 from our last challenge, I have to comment on the entries we received. To those of you who read the challenge, and saw that we had a specific list of Bs to choose from, and entered appropriate creations with at least three of those Bs, thank you. However, well over half of our entrants, clearly didn’t read the post because they entered creations with entirely different Bs to the ones we listed right at the top of our challenge. I always put the challenge details at the top of the page so you don’t have to scroll through paragraphs of other stuff just to find what we are asking of you, so please, please, could you have the courtesy of actually reading those requirements before entering your card/creation in the linky. It’s not sufficient to see the title and assume you know what we are asking, nor is it sufficient to use a challenge directory website and assume you know what we are asking from there either. I feel as if I am banging a boring drum here, but I don’t think it’s much to ask that you just check that what you are adding to the linky actually matches what we have asked you to do! Some people even entered 5 Bs NONE of which were on our list!

Sadly I had to delete a number of entries because it’s not fair on the people who have read and entered an appropriate piece.

Right enough of the moaning, down to business ….

Pamellia has chosen the winner from her Triple 'B' Challenge as follows:-

Thank you all for joining in with my challenge at Crafty Cardmakers and More...